PHP to parse DOM and setInnerHTML?

[notanoob]

$doc = DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile("test.html");

$ele = $doc->getElementById('di');

//missing ability to setinnerhtml,

//something like $ele->setInnerHTML("<div>sdfsdfdsf<b>dsfdsF</b></div>");

//or

//something like setInnerHTML($ele, "<div>sdfsdfdsf<b>dsfdsF</b></div>");

echo $doc->saveHTML();

 

Does anyone know a way to implement a setInnerHTML type function to remove all the children of a Dom Element and replace them with new children based on a string of HTML?  (I don't want to use createElement and all that directly, obviously, but some suggestion of how to use that inside the setInnerHTML function would be nice)

[notanoob]

the ability to do this could revolutionize web programming!  This is why they didn't include it in PHP standard--or any other serverside language--because it would render the need for templating engines useless!

[Veehmot]

You could use replaceChild() method to replace the node with another one. And that one will be generated by loadHTML() method.